Description from Amazon:
The perfect crime doesn’t exist. The
perfect getaway . . . that’s another story.
Billy Summers is a killer for hire. He’s among the best snipers in the world, a
decorated Iraq war vet who can blend into any neighbourhood and disappear after
the shot is taken. But he’ll only agree to a contract if the target is a truly
bad guy.
Now Billy wants out. But first he’s offered one final job - an offer which is
just too big to refuse.
As the days count down to the hit, Billy senses something is wrong. He doesn’t
yet know just how wrong, or about the woman who will help him try to set things
right.
Part thriller, part war story, part lyrical portrait of small-town
America, Billy Summers is about a good man in a bad job, with
one last shot at redemption.
I absolutely loved this. It’s quite
different from his usual fare, and I thought the nod to The Shining was a fun
addition.
Billy’s job and the people involved is laid
out nicely, and even though what he is about to do is so completely wrong, you
are cheering him on. The book is quite thick, so as the job is put into action,
there seem to be a lot of pages over. Enter the second portion, which, while it
has a different element to it, ties it all together so well that by the end the
emotions are a rollercoaster.
Billy takes you through parts of his life
in wars through memories and the book he is writing, and I thought the way he
writes his book using his simple voice and then his usual one read really well.
There are cringy parts and his first interaction with Alice as well as some of
the decisions he makes about her are downright questionable. But I guess that
also shows how people make decisions and how wrong they can be.
Many won’t like this book based on
decisions made and the political jabs, but I really enjoyed it!
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